The fanciest weissenborns had rope binding, but I liked the flamed maple that I used on the tricone so I thought I'd duplicate it here. One is braced in the traditional weissie pattern, however smaller and taller, the other has angled tone bars like a modern guitar. That is the only difference - we'll se if they sound different.

Ken Hundley wrote:

Gorgeous work as always, herman, can't wait to see the finsihed product.

Thanks all. For those of you who haven't seen or heard of them, they were popular in the 30's for Hawaiian style music and have had a big return with people like David Lindley, Ben Harper, Ed Gerhard. They are fretless (the "frets" are maple strips inlayed into the fretboard) and are played lap style with a Dobro steel bar.

I saw Lindley with Jackson Browne last summer (Lindley does the incredible lap steel solo in "Running On Empty") and that got me fired up to build myself one. The Fretboard Journal article with Harper and Lindley fueled that fire and when a steel guitar playing friend commented that he wanted one the fire really took off.

I promise to record it and I plan to take it and the koa tricone to the GAL conference and let Mark Swanson play them during the Acoustic Listening seminar.

Speaking of recordings, I recorded John Fahey's song Steamboat Gwine Round the Bend on the home made12 string and since the Dobro and the Duolian were also in open G so I thought I'd record the same thing on them. The tricone was in open D, but it was pretty easy to switch to G so I threw in it.

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